Children Quote by Haim Ginott

Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant!

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

— Mark Skousen

If children live with hostility, they learn to fight. If they live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive. If they live with criticism,…

— Ron Finley

“Nasty political correctness as a tactic then makes perfect sense. Having rejected reason, we will not expect ourselves or others to behave reasonably. Having…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

“[S]ocial order displays not the absolute presence or absence of intolerance to difference but a spectrum of intolerance. Each of us bears responsibility to…

— Nivedita Menon

The punitive use of force tends to generate hostility and to reinforce resistance to the very behavior we are seeking.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind;…

— Virginia Woolf

“With a little more patience and a little less temper, a gentler and wiser method might be found in almost every case; and the…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Children learn to justify their aggressive actions early: They hit a younger sibling, who starts to cry, and immediately claim, "But he started it!…

— Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson

The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval, we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness, we are practicing harshness. The…

— Pema Chodron

Youth need guidance, direction, and proper restraint...Parents, too, have a responsibility in this training not to provoke children to wrath. They should be considerate…

— David O. McKay

“They are not born reasonable and unselfish; they are born unreasonable and selfish. They want what they want when they want it, and they…

— Thomas W. Phelan